New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-17
FATAL FLAMES IN A TENEMENT.
AN OLD WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.
REsCUING THE OTHER INMATES OF THE HOUSE
WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY.

REsCUING THE OTHER INMATES OF THE HOUSE
WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY.
Inmates Of the fve-story double tenement house No
CAT secondave were awakened before O'Clock yestcr-
day morning to find the house on nrc. Tho flames had
started somewhere the part Of the building either
in the or on the first floor Dora Gsshoe
kept delcatessen" shop and Jacob Eckstein mad Q
paint store. Smoke filling all the upper rooms and
the fire running the light shafts and starways 70
the roof when the alarm was given Leo Prasor police
man, VINO lived with his wife and three children
In second-story rooms, was ono of tho nrst Per
sons to discover the fire. He awoke with Q SUMO
eating sensation, having dreamed Of hre, put
being very sleepy no turned and took another Sleep
Again he dreamed re and he started up to find his
full Of smoke. He aroused his wife and children
and got hem out Of tho house In their night clothes Tho
cracking Of flames In rear room hastened their hight
Prayer shouted at tho Of his voice to warn the other
tenants He back into the house TO get some clothes
for his family but he continued 70 shout fire." On the
Same floor lived George A. Faust butcher He got hiE
family out safely although the stairs were blazing
Gustave Gillsdorf, q young German who worked for
Faust and boarded with the family upstairs to warn
the other tenants. He had to turn back ct
the third floor, and falling on the stairs no
got Into the street his clothes fire and his bare
feet were burned badly An ambulance afterwsro car
Above the second floor the families Of John Quinn M
webber John Drummer, william Hagues William Miller;
J0hn Wai6n, francis DanlelS CAtnarno LcbGuukc ehu
Mrs Mahon in great peril IL was impossible Tor
them TO escape tho stare and the hreescapes were
crowded with frightened men. women and children.
Policemen helped some of them down third alarm
had been sounded and the fremen were soon
ct the house ia force. Many women
freescapes taken down ladders by the fremen
Most OF the rescued persons IN night attire and tney
shiveed in the morning air until the homes Oh neigh
b0s we're opened to them. The remen made short work
of the flames believed that all the occu-
pants the had escaped As soon as was posi-
bic to search roOms however was that
one life had been destroyed Mrs: Bridget Hughes. 2
widow sixty-fye years old. who lived alone In small
on the top floor had pcrished Her oharred body
WAS found on the foor OF the room. IL WAS
evident from the position OF the body that the
old woman had been awakened by the cries OF fire and
had made efforts escape Probably she had waited 700
long trying to dress herself to save some OK
property. Her body removed TO the Thiry-nltn
Street Police Station await the orders OF coroner
The tene ment house damaged about $4,000 by the
flames II belongs 70 Samuel Gompers. OF fonkers ana
s said be insured for $4,000 The losses OF tenans
probably will reach $1,000 Only few OF them hsa any
Insurance The I'm the OF the house. where the
kitchens were had been burned much that the house
cannot be occupied until 1t thoroughly overhauled Iho
origin OF the fire not known yesterday Some ten,
ants house had lost their clothing and had
been made homeless for the me talked about ihcendiar
ism, but the police thought the hrc was accidental